COPD

Posted by Dr R Narasimhan on May 29, 2010 | 0 comments

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a lung disease in which the lung is damaged, making it hard to breathe. In COPD, the airways-the tubes that carry air in and out of your lungs-are partly obstructed, making it difficult to get air in and out. Cigarette smoking is the most common cause of COPD. Most people with COPD are smokers or former smokers....

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Pulmonary Surgeries

Posted by Dr R Narasimhan on Apr 23, 2010 | 0 comments

Any surgery is a traumatic surgery. That too if a person is told that he has to sacrifice a part of the lung due to a lung abscess or destroyed lung or lung cancer. As in the minds of the common man heart and lung are the most essential and can not be sacrificed. The thoracic surgeries can be as mild as a bronchoscopy or as major as thoracotomy. But the...

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Pulmonary Function Tests

Posted by Dr R Narasimhan on Apr 23, 2010 | 0 comments

A pulmonary function test is actually a series of five tests that measure lung function. The tests provide information about the amount of air a person’s lungs can hold, and how effectively the lungs work. They also look at the forcefulness of an individual’s breathing. Who is a candidate for the test? Some pulmonary function tests can be done at...

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Interstitial Lung Disease

Posted by Dr R Narasimhan on Mar 23, 2010 | 3 comments

WHAT IS FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS? Fibrosing alveolitis is a condition which is caused by cells, which are normally involved in the body’s own defense against infection, instead causing inflammation, injury and scarring in the lungs. Scars serve a good purpose in the skin where they heal injured areas but in the lung, scar tissue prevents the lung performing...

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Lung Cancer

Posted by Dr R Narasimhan on Mar 23, 2010 | 0 comments

Lung cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the lung. Normal lung tissue is made up of cells that are programmed by nature to create lungs of a certain shape and function. Sometimes the instructions to a cell go haywire and that cell and its offspring reproduce wildly, without regard for the shape and function of a lung. That wild reproduction...

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Occupational Lung diseases

Posted by Dr R Narasimhan on Feb 23, 2010 | 0 comments

Many types of work are associated with health hazards, and the lungs are among the most vulnerable parts of the body to airborne threats. Exposure to some substances can lead to occupational lung disease and in some cases lung cancer. Occupations especially at risk are: coal miners, farmers, asbestos workers, workers with epoxy resins or isocyanates. Other...

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